- From: L. David Baron via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:26:44 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
A few thoughts: * It seems undesirable to consider fallback fonts based on which characters are rendered, since that will lead to uneven sizing across different elements that are supposed to be the same, or potentially across different lines of the same element (depending on what the scope of "rendered" is). * But at the same time, it seems like using the metrics of the first choice font isn't always what's wanted. * Using the metrics of *all* the specified fonts (but not system font fallback and probably not generics) seems likely to be too slow * It doesn't seem like there's an obvious way for an author to specify what they want. * In some cases, my understanding is that developers in some language environments (e.g., Japanese) might specify a Latin font first before a Japanese font, even if the majority of their text is Japanese, because they don't want the Latin glyphs from the Japanese font. I'm not sure if this is still common, though. But if it is, finding some solution here may be important. -- GitHub Notification of comment by dbaron Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5226#issuecomment-1706729468 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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